Technique Page - Sequencing

Technique Page – Sequencing

What is it?: Sequencing is a succession, something the follows another thing.
How do you do it?
Sequencing is a fairly easy technique to do and can be very effective as it uses multiple images in the final piece.  This is how you can do it:

1.     You firstly need to decide what you are going to shoot.  An example of something that I did in class was shooting some of class mates standing in a line and they took it in turns to turn around.

2.     Now you have decided this (ensuring your camera is properly formatted) you can shoot your subjects/object.  You want to keep the camera in the same position and distance away from what you are shooting and only change what the subject/object is doing to get the best possible effect.   You can of course experiment with this by changing your position as the photographer, the angle or zoom of the camera etc. it entirely depends on the effect you are trying to achieve and what suits best for what you are shooting.  You want to do this a few times until you have your desired amount of shots.

3.     Once you have your photos, download like normal into Photoshop.

4.     Continue by opening a new blank transparent A4 document in Photoshop.

5.     Open all the images you want to include in your sequence and adjust the levels, curves etc. as well as resizing the photos to make sure they all fit on the A4 document (make sure they all remain the same size).

6.     You now need to divide the blank document up equally depending on how many images you want to place in it.

7.     It’s now time to place the images on the black document starting with the first and ending with the last.  It is up to you where you place them on the document and how you arrange them depending on whether the page is portrait or landscape and depending on how many photos you have.

8.     Position all the images where you want them too be, adjust as you go (use the gird on the transparent document as guide on positioning them the same width apart).

Once you have done this flatten the image and you are ready to print.